Up Close and Personal
The Monthly Interview with
CTM Founder Phillip Day

PD: I like the Hawaiian shirt.
ECLUB: Makes me look like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now.
PD: Don't be ridiculous, Brian.
ECLUB: Last we spoke, you were in Oklahoma. Pleased to be home?
PD: Sam and I had a terrific time in the US as always. Not much time to cool our heels though. But, yes. Nice to be home.
ECLUB: The new Break Free tour is a blast. For the benefit of the newcomers, what are you focusing on?
PD: We're taking a hard look at choices, and how the media influences us, especially concerning health. A timely message considering the U.S. House of Representatives has just approved funding of a controversial new plan to screen all U.S. citizens for mental illness.
ECLUB: Oh, dear me.
PD: As I've often said, folks, 'If you think you're completely sane, you simply have not had enough tests yet.'
ECLUB: Perhaps now's the time to tell everyone you're not a big fan of psychiatry.
PD: Almost all psychiatric illnesses are complete frauds and do not take the patients' diet and lifestyle into account. Psyches are not trained in nutrition, preferring the drug approach. I can only view this coming US measure with grave misgiving. It paves the way for enormous mischief, through the irresponsible prescribing of dangerous medicines. The entire nation will look like Stepford inside five years. Most don't realise the extent to which we are influenced by psychiatric dogma. I consider psychiatry to be THE most dangerous, destabilising influence in society today. Education, justice, government, asylum, war… psychiatry permeates them all. The resultant woes are covered and referenced in some detail in The Mind Game. In this issue of EClub, I'm also covering The Great Childhood Maddening, excerpted from the book.
ECLUB: What else?
PD: Prince Charles gets a rollicking for some comments he's made supporting alternative approaches to treating cancer. Professor Baum in the British Medical Journal predictably commences his attack: "The power of my authority comes with knowledge built on 40 years of study and 25 years of active involvement in cancer research. Your power and authority [Your Highness] rest on an accident of birth."
ECLUB: In other words, 'Bog off, Charles. Your brain is not as big as mine.'
PD: I applaud the Prince for the stand he takes on many things. The PC brigade (lobotomised and created in a factory by psychiatry) hates his guts. I have included Walter Last's excellent article on the delusional cancer industry along with the Charles article to vindicate the good Prince. Those considering cancer treatment are advised to go through it carefully and read my book Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth. As Professor Samuel Epstein has remarked: "What you don't know can hurt you."
ECLUB: What else?
PD: The UK's Gulf War Syndrome Inquiry has just begun. Don't hold your breath. The Iraqis will doubtless be blamed for it, along with everything else. There's some new data this month on epilepsy helped by sensible dietary changes…
ECLUB: Surprise, surprise.
PD: Macular degeneration is now being linked to an inappropriate intake of hydrogenated vegetable oils…
ECLUB: Surprise, surprise.
PD: There's an article on Parkinson's linked with bad water supplies. I've also included an excellent mainstream piece from the Irish Independent on the dangers of water fluoridation. Reverse osmosis is the way to go, in my view.
ECLUB: The news continues to spread.
PD: Professor Paul Connett and his Fluoridation Action Network should be supported by everyone. This week's success? Rotorua District Council in New Zealand voted unanimously against fluoridation. For those unfamiliar with the raging debate, please check out Fifty Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation. Sign up for the FAN newsletter too.
ECLUB: More on Steve Ransom's series on vaccination?
PD: As promised. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics is excerpted from the excellent Wake up to Health in the 21st Century. My Book of the Year, by the way.
ECLUB: Ah, at last, one you didn't write.
PD: You're as funny as measles, Brian.
ECLUB: More news, I see, on the weakening of organic standards in America.
PD: Yup. The Biotech boys don't want a bunch of tree-hugging whale-watchers denting their bottom line. The global move towards natural foods free of chemicals has hurt the industry. Certainly enough for George W's Billionaire Club to take the President on a round of golf to get the business sorted.
ECLUB: Before he bombs Iran.
PD: Shades of Big Pharma and their corporate coup d'état of the natural medicines industry.
ECLUB: What news on the EU front?
PD: The European Union is still expected to ban 300 safe nutrients and nutrient sources, along with a roster of herbs, from 1st August 2005. Looks like we'll lose our supplements unless Britain at least withdraws. Availability of the banned foods, if they are permitted at all, will be by prescription. Non-banned items are expected to be sold in health stores only in Recommended Daily Allowance amounts.
ECLUB: Are people waking up to the European Union?
PD: Europeans, even the French aristocrat Philippe de Villiers, are getting fed up with the Politburo-style interference, woeful hikes in taxation, and the clink-eyed, overarching corruption. In Britain, where most of us happily dwell on New Labour's political thorazine drip, it's just starting to penetrate that Tony Blair has signed us into a foreign governance. Now all separating Britain from her provincial future in a new United States of Europe is the tenuous bleat of a national referendum.
ECLUB: You're not hopeful?
PD: Blair's already said that if he loses, he'll go back to Gerhardt and Jacques and re-jig until he gets the darn thing through. One of the great psychological things about referendums is if you keep holding them, people eventually keel over in defeat and acquiesce. There has to be a major civilian effort at rebuttal. And this man needs to be out of power in a hurry.
ECLUB: What can we do?
PD: Dress him in your Hawaiian shirt and send him off with a delegation to Iran. Back to making those Break Free decisions again!
ECLUB: Good luck with the tour. Where's tonight?
PD: Home. Samantha says it's Friday.